HAMMERFALL Guitarist Talks About Olympic Curling Name-Call
February 26, 2010, 14 years ago
Mark Morton from Examiner.com caught up with guitarist Oscar Dronjak from Swedish power metallers HAMMERFALL recently and chatted about a number of topics. A few excerpts follow:
Examiner.com: In the wake of the amazing shock hearing HammerFall mentioned during Sunday night’s Olympic Curling coverage, I was wondering, are you following the Olympic events this year?
Dronjak: "Yeah, yeah, yeah! Of course! For us, it starts at 6pm and runs all the way through 6am the following morning. It’s on all night here in Europe, so I watch as much as I can. I’m not a fan of everything, but I do love the Winter Olympics!"
Examiner.com: How did your connection with Curling and the video come about anyway?
Dronjak: "The girls had read an article about them that said that women’s curling wasn’t very rock-and-roll, or something like that. So they said, 'Okay, we will show them that it IS rock-and-roll!' And somehow the question of whether or not we wanted to make a video with them ended up on our booker’s desk. Of course, we’re huge sports fans, and the idea of doing a video for an Olympic team was a really cool opportunity, because the Olympics are really big here in Sweden.
The girls were really cool with everything – they even put on some of our clothes and rocked out to the song. They were not at all as stiff as you would think some Olympic athletes would be. It was a great experience."
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